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<h1 align="center"><span class="pagetitle">About Obsolete Elements in HTML...</span><br>
<font size=2>= <span class="sitetitle">Index DOT Html</span> by <a href="../../misc/email.htm">Brian Wilson</a> =</font></h1>
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<dt><big><b class="mainheading">Justification</b></big>
    <dd>The use of these block-like elements is not recommended. They were
        marked as deprecated/&quot;obsolete&quot; in the HTML 2.0, 3.0 and
        3.2 versions and do not appear in HTML 4.0 and beyond at all. Browsers 
        still implement support for these elements for compatibility with existing
        documents and it is unlikely that this support will ever actually be
        withdrawn from existing browsers in the future.
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<dt><big><b class="mainheading">Usage</b></big>
<dt>[ &lt;<a href="l/listing.htm">Listing</a>&gt;,
      &lt;<a href="p/plaintext.htm">Plaintext</a>&gt;,
      &lt;<a href="x/xmp.htm">Xmp</a>&gt; ]
    <dd>These elements allow content to be displayed &quot;as-is&quot; in the
        document by stopping regular HTML parsing until the closing element
        is found. The <a href="p/pre.htm">PRE</a> element is now the
        recommended replacement for these elements.
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<dt><b class="subheading">Official References</b>
<dt><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1866.txt" class="relevant">http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1866.txt</a>
    <dd><span class="relevant">RFC 1866: The HTML 2.0 specification (plain text)</span>
<dt><a href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/" class="relevant">http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec</a>
    <dd><span class="relevant">The web version of the HTML 2.0 (RFC 1866) specification</span>
<dt><a href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Wilbur/" class="relevant">http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Wilbur/</a>
    <dd><span class="relevant">The HTML 3.2 (Wilbur) recommendation<br>
        [Includes the deprecated &quot;obsolete&quot; elements]</span>
<dt><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/html/reference/elements.asp">http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/html/reference/elements.asp</a>
    <dd><span class="relevant">Internet Explorer Tag reference<br>
        [Details deprecated element usage in Internet Explorer]</span>
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